Italy: gold 20-lire of Umberto I, 1882-R, raw BU (MS62-ish, prooflike)
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Italy: gold 20-lire of Umberto I, 1882-R
KM21, .900 gold/.1867 oz. Ex-Thomas Pollandt, Münzen am Zoo Berlin, 4/23/2015.
The Krause/NGC/Numismaster priceguide trends this coin for $500 in VF20, $600 in XF40, and $700 in MS60.
The German seller described it as a "USA MS62" grade, and I tend to agree with that assessment. It is a BU coin but likely in the lower tier of the MS spectrum technically.
However, the delightful surprise was discovering how amazingly prooflike it is in hand, with flashy mirrors and a touch of frosty contrast. The pictures here only show a tiny hint of that.
PS- I tried (and pretty much failed) to capture some of the prooflike contrast myself. The coin still came out a bit flat looking. In the photo below some of the contrast shows a bit, but the mirrors do not.
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Italy: gold 20-lire of Umberto I, 1882-R
KM21, .900 gold/.1867 oz. Ex-Thomas Pollandt, Münzen am Zoo Berlin, 4/23/2015.
The Krause/NGC/Numismaster priceguide trends this coin for $500 in VF20, $600 in XF40, and $700 in MS60.
The German seller described it as a "USA MS62" grade, and I tend to agree with that assessment. It is a BU coin but likely in the lower tier of the MS spectrum technically.
However, the delightful surprise was discovering how amazingly prooflike it is in hand, with flashy mirrors and a touch of frosty contrast. The pictures here only show a tiny hint of that.
PS- I tried (and pretty much failed) to capture some of the prooflike contrast myself. The coin still came out a bit flat looking. In the photo below some of the contrast shows a bit, but the mirrors do not.
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That is .1867 oz of gold you might note LM
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That is .1867 oz of gold you might note LM
Whoops. Decimal place typo. Thanks, Gil!
That extra zero to the right of the decimal must have crept in from my bank balance.
Corrected. Yes, it is 0.1867, not .01867.
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